The X-Border Art Biennial is a cooperation between the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland; “the centre of socio-cultural technologies of Municipal formation of the closed administrative territorial formation of the town of Severomorsk”, Russia and Luleå Art Biennial / Kilen Art Group, Luleå, Sweden.

New Horizons –project has got funding from EU from Kolarctic ENPI CBC –progman administrated by Regional Council of Lapland (Lapplands förbund ). The project has started on 1.2.2013 and continues by the end of 2014. The project has several subprojects, and X-Border is one of them. The funding of all activities is 3 154 885 euros, half of it comes from The European Union.